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Newspaper
Arcadia Journal
Location
Arcadia, California, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1918
Page
2
The Arcadia Journal notes its status as a weekly paper published every Saturday and entered at the Arcadia California post office as second class matter.
Arthur Brisbane cites examples from history and literature to urge discouraged individuals that success often follows hardship. He highlights Napoleon Richelieu Moliere Joe Jefferson Christopher Wren Milton Beethoven Pope Socrates and others to illustrate perseverance and the idea that “I will rise again” marks a foundation for recovery.
An appeal urges citizens to donate to the American Red Cross starting tomorrow. The piece compares Red Cross needs to Liberty Loans, stressing funds to aid soldiers, hospitals, and displaced children, and calls for generous city support in the nationwide drive.
Poet Walt Mason reflects on surviving winter, embracing spring driving and the expense of gasoline, tires, and speed fines. He vows to support the Red Cross while spending on auto needs and bonds to protect inherited fortunes.
The House mines committee favorably reports a fifty million dollar bill to develop and conserve rarer metals such as tungsten molybdenum graphite and manganese. The measure seeks government control of production distribution and prices if needed and has broad approval from War Navy Interior officials and witnesses.
The piece urges readers to pursue a big ideal to end anxiety from drifting through life. It compares aimless living to a dog waiting in a railroad station and a person unsure of direction, stressing that purpose transcends occupation across home school shop or store.
An official food news piece urges American women to sustain home production and rationing as fronts demand food. It cites France and England, stressing independence from the global food pool, and calls on housewives to farm, preserve, and manage rations amid wartime shortages.
A plea urging one hundred million dollars for the Red Cross to aid twelve million orphaned European children and fund hospitals nurses ambulances and supplies. It emphasizes charity over red tape and calls for funding to prevent famine disease and suffering in war torn regions.
A prose piece personifies the Red Cross as a symbol of mercy, charity, and unity. It frames the organization as civilization’s hope and the touchstone of compassion, linking it to victory, peace, and shared duty across society. It notes acknowledgments to Robert Jr. Davis and references a printing work.
An official in a French city faced 750 children in a gas threat and called the American Red Cross in Paris. Fifteen workers rushed to help. 21 babies under one year and 729 under eight were found in a filthy, unfurnished building. Red Cross teams cleaned, relocated to safer buildings, provided doctors and nurses, and began permanent care and education plans. The piece underscores vast needs of French children amid German brutality.
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